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February 7, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 97 Post-Punk
The early eighties in Wellington was the best place and the soundtrack for me was what I suppose you would call post punk. It was a new type of music and I loved it – Echo and XTC, Furs and the Cure, Magazine and Joy Division, Dexy’s and Only Ones, Stranglers and Members, Japan and […]Archive
July 20, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 17 The Gladstone
After the Spines had recorded our album, the Moon, we went about playing the songs live. That line up with Ross Burge, Wendy Calder, Neill Duncan and me became very forceful and rhythmic and could play to big crowds. We got some great support slots – Hunters and Collectors, the Go-Betweens, The Violent Femmes and […]Archive
November 25, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1742
The Johnnys, Highlights Of A Dangerous Life (1986) My good friend Matthew Couper gave me a dubbed cassette of The Johnnys when we were at high school. Man, I thrashed that album. It was this weird hybrid of tongue-in-cheek country and tongue-in-pint pub-rock and I loved it. Instantly. All it once it was like nothing I’d […]Archive
November 18, 2011 by Simon Sweetman